

May 21, 2022 - Erbil, Iraq
As the chairmen of the Visible Jointed Conference on Educational Studies and Applied Linguistics (VESAL), we have the honor to welcome you on behalf of the 12th VESAL Conference which will be held from May 20th to 21st, 2022 at the University of Salahaddin – Erbil and Tishk International University Education Faculty Building in Erbil, Iraq.
The heuristic and reality of an international academic conference, in which people engage with each other to discuss the latest research, test ideas, and take part in rigorous and challenging debates, has never been more important. One of the missions of Tishk International University, Education Faculty is to promote international exchange, facilitate intercultural awareness, encourage interdisciplinary discussion, and generate and share new knowledge, and we encourage you, as academics working throughout the world, to forge the friendships and working relationships with your fellow delegates in pursuit of the research synergies that drive positive change.
It is in this spirit of friendship and international cooperation, and with the expectation of your active participation, that I express my warmest regards to you.
Assist. Prof. Dr. Saeed O. Ibrahim
Dr. Venera Ulker
Chairs of the VESAL Conference
To enable the knowledge and information accessible to everyone, Tishk International University holds its annual conference on Educational Sciences. The International Visible Conference aims to gather researchers, practitioners, educators, and scholars with interests in any field of teaching at all levels from around the world.
We kindly welcome scholars coming from the international and local regions as well as teachers and prospective teachers to Erbil, Iraq. The VESAL 2022 conference aims to contribute to the region and educators through international experts and researchers.
The VESAL 2022 conference plans to remain open to educational studies, language teaching and/or language-education related topics broadly defined, looking more closely into the current dynamics in the world between old and new trends, local and global tendencies, progressive and conservative views, stabilization and destabilization patterns, national and global identities.
It is expected that VESAL 2022 conference will be a magnet for a significant number of front-ranking academics, professionals and policymakers working in the broad areas of educational studies.
Mark LeTourneau is a full professor in the Department of English at Weber State University, where he has taught since 1987. He teaches lower-division writing and literature, upper-division linguistics, and graduate courses in stylistics. His research is in Arabic morphology and in particular morphosyntax. As a teacher of writing and a second-language speaker of Arabic, he is personally and professionally invested in second-language learning and literacy.
Mark LeTourneau is a full professor in the Department of English at Weber State University, where he has taught since 1987. He teaches lower-division writing and literature, upper-division linguistics, and graduate courses in stylistics. His research is in Arabic morphology and in particular morphosyntax. As a teacher of writing and a second-language speaker of Arabic, he is personally and professionally invested in second-language learning and literacy.
Hedde Zeijlstra is a university professor at the Seminar for English Philology at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen, where he is the the speaker of the DFG-funded Research Training Group "Form-meaning mismatches". His main interest is the relation between sentence meaning and form: how does the meaning of a sentence follow from its parts, and why are there so many different ways of expressing the same meaning across languages? Zeijlstra has held guest lecture appointments at, among others, Cambridge University, MIT and UCLA. Since 2017 he also has served as an associate editor of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, and since 2018 as general editor of Linguistic Variation. In addition, he is a member of the editorial boards of Glossa, Linguistic Inquiry, the Journal of Linguistics, and Pragmatics & Semantics.
Hedde Zeijlstra is a university professor at the Seminar for English Philology at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen, where he is the the speaker of the DFG-funded Research Training Group "Form-meaning mismatches". His main interest is the relation between sentence meaning and form: how does the meaning of a sentence follow from its parts, and why are there so many different ways of expressing the same meaning across languages? Zeijlstra has held guest lecture appointments at, among others, Cambridge University, MIT and UCLA. Since 2017 he also has served as an associate editor of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, and since 2018 as general editor of Linguistic Variation. In addition, he is a member of the editorial boards of Glossa, Linguistic Inquiry, the Journal of Linguistics, and Pragmatics & Semantics.
Mahalingam Subbiah is a professor at Weber State University. He has been teaching under graduate technical writing and literature courses and world literature courses at graduate level. He has been an active member presenting regularly at Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conferences on literature, technical writing, and online pedagogy. He has managed to publish in Technical Communication; Technical Communication Quarterly; IEEE Professional Communication; Weber, The Contemporary West, and a chapter in Foundations for Teaching Technical Communication: Theory, Practice, and Program Design (Ablex).
Mahalingam Subbiah is a professor at Weber State University. He has been teaching under graduate technical writing and literature courses and world literature courses at graduate level. He has been an active member presenting regularly at Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conferences on literature, technical writing, and online pedagogy. He has managed to publish in Technical Communication; Technical Communication Quarterly; IEEE Professional Communication; Weber, The Contemporary West, and a chapter in Foundations for Teaching Technical Communication: Theory, Practice, and Program Design (Ablex).
• PhD, MA in English Language & Linguistics from Salahaddin Universty-Erbil/Iraq.
• Has worked as university instructor since 1998 and taught undergraduate and post-graduate students in Salahaddin , Koya and Soran universities.
• Supervised and participated in the discussion of over 60 Master thesis and PhD dissertations and viva committees.
• Has participated in various international and local conference , workshops and training course.
• Has 9 published books including an English learning series and an electronic dictionary
• Has 37 published academic papers
• Has translated tens of articles for international and local newspapers and magazines and TVs.
• Currently, Staff member in English department, College of Basic Education, Salahaddin university-Erbil
• Member of the European Linguists Association , IATEFL
• Chair of Kurdistan English Language Teachers Professional Network(KELTPN)
• Founder & CEO of MegaMind Plus Academy
• PhD, MA in English Language & Linguistics from Salahaddin Universty-Erbil/Iraq.
• Has worked as university instructor since 1998 and taught undergraduate and post-graduate students in Salahaddin , Koya and Soran universities.
• Supervised and participated in the discussion of over 60 Master thesis and PhD dissertations and viva committees.
• Has participated in various international and local conference , workshops and training course.
• Has 9 published books including an English learning series and an electronic dictionary
• Has 37 published academic papers
• Has translated tens of articles for international and local newspapers and magazines and TVs.
• Currently, Staff member in English department, College of Basic Education, Salahaddin university-Erbil
• Member of the European Linguists Association , IATEFL
• Chair of Kurdistan English Language Teachers Professional Network(KELTPN)
• Founder & CEO of MegaMind Plus Academy
Abstract Submission Deadline | May 7th, 2022 |
Results of Review Returned to Authors | Generally within two weeks |
Full Conference Paper Submission Deadline | June 10, 2022 |
Conference Dates | May 20th – 21st, 2022 |
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